Consul General Brecht attended the UIC Germanic Studies Awards Day held in the UIC Daley Library on Tuesday. The keynote address was given by Brian Sobolak, a Vice President at Northern Trust. Mr.…
German major Jeffrey Saba won first place in the category Arts/Design/Humanities at the 2014 UIC Student Research Forum. His research project “When Violence Begets Violence:Examining the Mass Expulsion of the Sudeten Germans from…
German major Jeffrey Saba has been awarded a DAAD study scholarship. With the DAAD scholarship, Jeffrey will pursue a two-year masters program in World Heritage Studies at the Brandenburgische Technische Universitaet Cottbus-Senftenberg in Cottbus. The program offers a multi-disciplinary, holistic approach…
Nathan Tancula, a German major with the Business minor and a minor in Italian, has just received an internship with the U.S. State Department for Summer 2014. Nathan will intern with the Areas…
Please join us in congratulating David Faulk, who has won a Provost’s Award in support of his dissertation research on “Arab-German Writers in the Light of Middle-Eastern and European Discourses.” This award is…
Kerry Gawne, German major and member of the Honors College at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is this year’s winner of the Delta Phi Alpha senior scholarship. This scholarship is given to…
THE SOUNDSCAPES OF CULTURE February 27-28, 2014 The School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics invites papers connected to this year’s overarching theme of sound, as well as papers based on all current…
Elizabeth Loentz (UIC Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies) recently published a book, Let Me Continue to Speak the Truth: Bertha Pappenheim as Author and Activist. It was reviewed by Katharina Gerstenberger (Department of German Studies, University of Cincinnati).
The Milwaukee Film Festival, presented by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is proud to announce the line-up for its third annual Passport program. Passport: Germany will spotlight a selection of films made by eight German (and…